Three hundred consultations in midwifery / by Robert Lee.

  • Robert Lee
Date:
1864
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Credit: Three hundred consultations in midwifery / by Robert Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    11-1 CONSTJLTATIONS IK MlDWlFEET. means, after a most severe, protracted labour. No sloughing followed either the first or the second labour. Case 186.—On August 24th, 1857,1 saw a patient from the Bahama Islands, whose perinffium had been ruptured three years before in her first labour; it was by her report a rapid labour, but the practitioner in attendance did not support the parts when the head of the child was being born. He foUowed the practice since inconsiderately recommended. He sat talking about things that had no connection with the labour, and to this the accident was attributed. A surgical operation was performed four or five months after the labour, without any benefit; she had dysentery in the West Indies, and this was not wholly gone, but her health had improved since her arrival in England, three weeks before. The sphincter ani had not been much injured ; she could, when sit- ting or lying, retain the contents of the rectum and when the bowels were confined; when standing or walking, the contents of the rectum escaped in- voluntarily. As her strength had been extremely reduced by diarrhoea, and as her health had greatly improved since her arrival in England, she was re- commended to spend some months at the sea-side before another attempt was made to reunite tne lacerated parts by a surgical operation. Case 187.—Mrs. , fet. 34; Mr. , Septei^er 3rd 1857 —About the age of thirteen had aflec- tion of the spine, and during six months lay several hours daily, but took exercise at other times; till near twenty the affection of the spine continued, and there was a caustic issue about the dorsal region. The lower extremities were never aftected with para- lysis and the bones are not bent; she was always able to walk. Catameuia appeared at fourteen, and
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